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July 22, 2020

• Kansas Board of Education botched decision on opening schools. Will districts do better?
• Ten NASCAR Cup drivers to watch in Thursday night’s marquee race at Kansas Speedway
• Video shows frightening moment soccer player was hit by lightning at practice
• This Outdoors Report includes an unlikely catch in a KC-area lake. Plus usual prospects
• NASCAR returns to KC Thursday. It’s been night and day for Hamlin at Kansas Speedway
• A plumber, a Chief and an Uber driver walk into a Senate race. Can one win the GOP nod?
• Blake Shelton coming to KC (at the drive-in). Here’s your weekend entertainment guide
• KCK teenager shot while driving on Sunday died one day later, police say
• Twenty years of NASCAR at Kansas Speedway: our racing countdown continues with 10-6
• Speakers debate local control of Kansas City police as possible ballot issue
• Kansas City could see scattered showers before temperatures rise to end the week
• Black Kansas Citians have enough obstacles already. Disability adds another layer
• The Star endorses Lehman and Kessinger in critical Kansas House Republican primaries
• We must face reality: Slave patrols of the Old South are a foundation of our policing
• ‘Very tropical’ as heat and high humidity return to the Kansas City metro area
• Royals Dayton Moore’s message to Class of 2020 should resonate with broader audience
• Missouri Gov. Parson says kids ‘gotta get back to school.’ He needs a lesson on risks
• KCK school district plans online classes for first nine weeks after delayed start
• Royals made headlines for hitting three Astros players, but it wasn’t nefarious
• Missouri AG protects gun-toting white couple, blocks wrongfully convicted Black man’s release
• Missouri Gov. Parson clarifies comments on kids catching COVID after national criticism
• Bob Dole at 97: A reminder of what America, at its best, can be
• Operation Legend in KC to help local officials with violent crime wave: U.S. attorney
• Ex-Minneapolis cop Derek Chauvin charged with tax crimes while jailed in Floyd death
• United threatens to ban fliers who refuse to wear face masks at the airport
• 13 sisters have died from coronavirus in one Michigan convent. ‘Our most tragic time’
• Bar hoppers in party bus may have spread COVID-19 in several bars, MI tavern says
• Three people suffer gunshot wounds to legs in shooting outside Kansas City home
• Kansas GOP Senate candidate Dave Lindstrom defends federal presence in Portland
• Overland Park councilman arrested, charged with domestic battery
• Lucas raises concerns about Trump’s ‘dog-whistling’ as federal Operation Legend expands
• Trump expanding Justice Department’s Operation Legend to Chicago, Albuquerque
• Trump blames KC officials for policing failure. Does he know we don’t have local control?
• Letters: KC readers discuss a Chiefs name idea, knowing Greitens and police authority
• Hometown of Chiefs general manager Brett Veach picked a special road to name after him
• Chiefs’ Mecole Hardman issues challenge after Tyreek Hill beat Terrell Owens in race
• Barr claimed feds in KC made 200 arrests in two weeks. That’s not even close to true.
• ‘We have no choice.’ Trump expands Operation Legend, surging feds in American cities
• Barr says feds arrested 200 people in Operation Legend. KC officials can’t confirm it
• KC man charged with murder said he drove shooter of pregnant woman with stroller
• Kansas City metro sees another record-breaking day for new COVID-19 cases
• Want to get into Arrowhead Stadium for a Chiefs game this year? You’ll need a mask
• This Chiefs player will be Grand Marshal for Kansas Speedway’s Thursday NASCAR race
• ‘Never seen anything close to this.’ In pandemic, Kansas City RV business is very good
• Brady Singer will make major-league debut Saturday for Royals, manager Matheny says
• Hunter Dozier’s positive COVID-19 result amplifies Mike Matheny’s message to Royals 
• KU football workouts restart as AD announces latest COVID-19 testing results
• KC closings and empty stores: Country Club Plaza, Brookside, Leawood, Legends, Northland
• From showy to inconspicuous, this variety of hydrangea is a summer show-stopper
• Body in ‘Unsolved Mysteries’ case exhumed in Kansas as FBI probes possible hate crime